LEEMCAST is the podcast of the LEEM UPM association, the amateur rocketry association of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. This podcast covers all topics related to the space sector, with special guests who help to investigate all fields of this sector. They also deal with scientific issues from other branches, Read more…
Have you visited our social networks? We do not only have YouTube, which we already talked about in a previous post, and in which we have uploaded a new video, but we try to be active on Instagram too! In our Instagram profile, you can find images and news about Read more…
The days from May 15th to May 20th have been very busy for Team HERCCULES! First of all, our member Ángel Grover Pérez Muñoz, former student at the BSc Degree in Computer Engineering and student of the Distributed and Embedded Systems Software master at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, participated Read more…
Do you want to know more about the project and about stratospheric balloons in space? Do you want to know about a project made entirely by UPM students? Next March 17 at 2:00 p.m. we will give a conference in the “Juan de la Cierva” auditorium, at the Higher Technical Read more…
Join the HERCCULES team in this video series where we will explain the development throughout the REXUS/BEXUS program! In this first video, Alejandro Fernández Soler tells us about the Rexus/Bexus Program and about the experiment. Once a month, a new video will be uploaded where we will review the main Read more…
TASEC-Lab, (Thermal Analysis Support and Environment Characterization Laboratory) is an instrument developed by most of the actual integrant of HERCCULES team to carry out an experiment to characterize heat transfer by convection in stratospheric balloon missions. This IDR experiment has been carried out in collaboration between the Instituto universitario de Read more…
On December 13, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the 10 experiments selected to participate in the REXUS (sounding rocket) and BEXUS (stratospheric balloon) programs. These programs allow students from universities and colleges across Europe to conduct science and technology experiments. Two rockets and two balloons are launched each year, Read more…
